BA Community Studies
The Community Studies programme from Maynooth University is specifically designed for adult students who are interested in pursuing a part-time evening degree.
Duration
4.5 years
Starting Date
September
Tuition Fee
TBA
Location
Maynooth, Ireland
The programme
New students of the Community Studies programme from Maynooth University are catered for in Semester 1 with an introduction to programmes which includes a comprehensive study skills and student support module aimed at people who have been out of the education system for any length of time.
If you are interested in community work, addiction and recovery, youth studies, history, politics, development, adult education, society and culture and have two free evenings a week, then this wide-ranging degree will appeal to you.
Use previous learning to fast-track to the degree award through our Recognition of Prior Learning system.
Career Options
- The community, voluntary and statutory sectors.
- Adult and further education and training; community development, teaching, drug and alcohol services, civil service and Non-Governmental Organisations.
- Postgraduate study in fields of interest such as education, citizenship, social inclusion and social cohesion, regeneration, narrative enquiry, gender studies, politics and sociology.
- Progression to the Professional Master of Education for Secondary School teaching or the HDip. in Further Education and Training.
Courses Included
- Adult and Community Education
- Anthropology
- Applied Social Studies
- Sociology; History
- Geography